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this statement untrue. They proved
that, although a water main had
burst, its bursting was a direct result
of the collapse of the street and did
not occur until after the street fell.
There was a loud cry for -action
against Field & Co., but the city,
after blustering over for a few days,
allowed the affair to quiet down. A
few days after The Day Book point
ed out that Wabash avenue was in
a dangerous condition and that a
crash might occur when crowded
"L" trains were passing overhead.
This was denied, but at the same
time feverish haste was made in re
inforcing the street under Wabash
avenue.
It was openly charged by those bit
ter against Marshall Field & Co. that
the Randolph street collapse was
caused by the hoggishness of Mar
shall Field & Co. in using space un
der the city streets in their work of
building their annex.
Now comes the Chicago Surface
lines with a suit against Marshall
Field & Co., which they "don't care
to discuss." Their suit was filed in
the superior court yesterday after
noon. In it they ask Marshall Field
& Co. to come across with $8,000.
which they say it cost them to fix
up their part of Randolph street after
the crash, and for work on Wabash
av. after The Day Book sounded the
warning.
In the bill the surface lines accuse
Marshall Field of encroaching 25 feet
from the building on Randolph street
and 15 feet from the building line on
Wabash avenue in putting up their
building. It is this encroachment the
surface lines blame for weakening
the street to such an extent that the
collapse occurred.
So, unless M. F. & Co. get busy and
settle the bill, the public might real
ize at the hearing of the suit just
what a grand stall the store put up in
its "broken water main" excuse.
GOVT OWNERSHIP OF COAU
DEPOSITS. RAILROADS AND
TELEPHONES ADVOCATED
St Louis, June 14. Government
ownership of railroads, telegraph and
telephone lines and coal deposits
weer advocated today for the Demo
cratic platform in a report to the re
solutions committee by Frank P.
Walsh, chairman of the committee
an industrial relations. Samuel
Gompers, president of the A. F. of L.,
submitted advocacy of organized la
bor forw ownership of telephone and
telegraph lines and a far-reaching
program of economic and industrial
reform.
Gompers confined his demands
largely to needs of labor. Walsh,
however, went further and suggested
planks for a better distribution of
wealth, recovery of public laads se
cured from the government by fraud
and public ownership of public utili
ties. Walsh'st proposed planks are the
outgrowth of the recent report of
the commission on industrial rela
tions, declaring that "2 per cent of
the people own 6& per cent of the
wealth and 65 per cent of the peo
ple own 5 per cent of the wealth of
the nation."
Among other demands made by
Walsh are:
"Condemn the action of such
courts as have prevented the forma
tion of voluntary associations.
"Denounce the practice of permit
ting private inteersts both to employ
state and national soldiers and to
employ armed guards and detectives
to crush out unions.
"Denounce the importation from
one state to another of armed
guards, machine guns, armored cars,
etc."
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"We'll be independent of men," say
girl graduates of eastern schools.
That's one of the best bids made this
spring for beaux by the score.